Chinese Manuf & Firmward

[bnolsen]

So why don't the chinese (or some chinese company) do what it can to "open up" their handheld and let people go crazy hacking in the software for them and just allow them to do what they do well...make cheap hardware?

Hasn't anyone learned yet from the dingoo?

 

[Nintendo]

It's all about pumping out products that are inadequate for gaming. Chinese PMP manufacturers are more content on making money on the music and video capability side of things, hence why (99% of the time) all the gaming aspects of things fail.

 

[x68000]

Most of these Chinese PMP's have dodgy generic chipsets which they usually fail to document, then drop them as quickly as they launch them.

 

[bnolsen]

thx for the replies and sorry for the topic mistype. The marketing angle about video/audio makes sense and must be profitable enough. Its just a shame they don't want to be more.

 

[Fishbong]

Do these chinese companies even know people want to write software for them?
Anyway, the strategy of most of those manufacturers seems to be to release a shitty device that looks "very neat for the price" on the product page. Then gadget nuts buy them because they want a new gadget and hey, at 80€ its not that big a risk. And when the novelty has worn off and it becomes obvious its just another AV player with some half baked features slapped on, they buy the next one, amassing huge piles of junk (some even call it a collection).
If a community developed around one of these devices, the manufacturer wouldn't be happy about it at all, because it would mean people would stick to the device and not buy the next one after 2 months.

I'd rather save my money for a while and then buy a kickass brand name device.

Hasn't anyone learned yet from the dingoo?

There is nothing to learn from the Dingoo. It is a closed device like all of them, the difference is that it attracted enough interest to be fully hacked. The manufacturer even hindered this process by releasing hardware revisions that weren't compatible with Dingux (unknowingly, according to ED they have no idea what people actually use their device for).